Sentence examples for performance as if from inspiring English sources

To stan for Britney is to endure the world alongside her, and today, there's a protectiveness to her gay fans' relationship with the performer, which leads them to excuse her latest video misfire or "basic" live performance, as if her mere ongoing existence were proof of her tenacity.

Pundits would review the candidate's performance as if it were opening night on Broadway ("Edwards bombed," "Obama held his own").

Chances are that Mr. and Mrs Hertz are as delighted over Count Turf's performance as if they owned him.

The fall capped a tense performance, as if Ms. Stafford feared the ballet's phrases were something she might break.

However, by disc six and Schubert's plangent D845 sonata, the magazine was describing Uchida's performance as if it were "looking into the grave itself.

That is a Maly tradition: the actors treat every performance as if it were the first and might be the last.

Mrs. Spaisman's fans seemed to respond to her performances as if the characters she played were real.

There was a mesmerizing self-possession in these performances, as if a vigorous dialogue between pianist and composer were taking place entirely inside Mr. Taylor's head and simply finding expression in his fingers.

Between shots of wheel spins, dust, colourful washing lines, Zimbabwean five-billion-dollar notes and a beware of the dog sign, we see glimpses of sweat-drenched performances as if witnessed in the flashes of a strobe light.

At his best, Teddy Pendergrass was an unsurpassable soul singer and such performances as "If You Don't Know Me by Now", "Don't Leave Me This Way" (both made with Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes), "Close the Door" and "Love T.K.O".

I am thinking of the big guys: Michael Badalucco as Doris's brother Frank, Jon Polito as a gay businessman, all toupee and sweat, and even Gandolfini — all of them encouraged to give outsize performances, as if to ruffle and embarrass the calm that prevails elsewhere.